The new Syrian authorities have demanded that the Kurdish formations located in the north of the country unconditionally lay down their arms, the Turkish publication Hurriyet reports. The meeting of representatives of the Syrian branch of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) with the new Syrian government took place in Damascus.

According to the media, in exchange for the demand to lay down their arms, the Kurdish side proposed creating at least one army corps or division in the new Syrian army, as well as equally dividing the oil fields in the north of the country. However, the new authorities "did not even consider this, demanding that the PKK-SNC unconditionally lay down their arms," TASS quotes the Hurriyet report.

Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the main ally of the new Syrian authorities, threatened to "bury" the Kurdish forces in Syria. "These criminal separatists will either say goodbye to their weapons voluntarily, or will be buried with them in the Syrian soil," the Turkish leader said.

On December 8, anti-government forces led by the HTS group took Damascus and announced the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. Mohammed al-Bashir became the head of the transitional government, which will operate until March 1, 2025. Kurdish troops in Syria are actively supported by the United States. After the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, they created an autonomous administration in the provinces of Aleppo, al-Hasakah, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor in the north of the country.